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Banks aren't using the right models to calculate risk-weighted assets, and are thus coming up with skewed results and using them to determine their Tier 1 ratios. That's Jamie Dimon's (NYSE:JPM) ...
Background. As part of an international effort to recalibrate how banks calculate their risk‑based capital, U.S. bank regulatory agencies (the “Agencies”) recently proposed major changes to how banks ...
Risk-weighted assets (RWAs): Risk-weights are assigned to assets according to estimates of the risk of those The higher the estimated risk, the higher the risk-weight factor and the greater the ...
The operational risk component of the agencies' capital proposal could not possibly pass any cost-benefit analysis, write Grag Baer and Francisco Covas, of Bank Policy Institute. If the capital rule ...
The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) issued a decision in May 2025 to raise the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) to 1% from 0% ...
The growth of balance sheet risk transfer within Europe shows no signs of abating. The ability to utilise "significant risk transfer" or "SRT" (at it is more commonly known in the EU and the UK) ...
TOKYO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings 8604.T said on Wednesday it would reduce risk weighted assets by up to 6% and make additional cost cuts in its wholesale business as the top Japanese ...
ZURICH, Oct 9 (Reuters) - UBS and Credit Suisse would likely cut risk-weighted assets significantly and growth in their investment banking would slow if new Swiss bank capital proposals were ...